Britain, London.
To prevent France and Spain from joining forces, the British were preparing to support Carlos once again at this crucial juncture before Isabella II ascended the throne.
Only old Carlos had already renounced his claim to the throne, and he was an extremely superstitious and stubborn man.
So the British chose his son, Robert Carlos. As luck would have it, Spain was beset by both natural and man-made disasters.
The natural disasters had been mentioned before: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fungal blights, and more in Catalonia and other regions.
The man-made disasters were the successive tyrannies of the regent Queen Christiana and the military government. Both sides had made and implemented policies that were downright inhuman.
Many of their policies also contradicted one another, so it was easy to imagine the chaos engulfing all of Spain. Although the French later forcibly replaced the military government, its influence had not been eradicated.
Most importantly, Spain's fortunes were steadily declining. Combined with the shock of the Industrial Revolution and the influx of French goods, its problems were more than Christiana, a wicked woman who knew only court intrigue, could solve.
What's more, the regent Queen Christiana had no desire to solve them. She only wanted to rake in enough money for her retirement before her daughter came of age.
Christiana's lovers took turns at the helm, and, like the regent herself, none of them cared whether the Spanish people lived or died.
So when Prince Carlos, backed by the British, decided to start a civil war, he won widespread support at once. The surviving factions from the military government's reign were especially quick to join forces with him.
And so Carlist War 2.0 was about to erupt in full fury. At that very moment, the Germans suddenly discovered that